Young tennis players all want to be successful. They make certain efforts to play tennis and try to improve their tennis skills. The desire for success that youngsters have may be conscious in their mind or can be subconscious in their mind. But they are all driven to succeed by motivation. This motivation is called “Achievement Motivation”.
Read more: Guiding Young Tennis Players to the Right Achievement Motivation
When tennis youngsters play competitions or tournaments, some of them think that their shots cannot finish the point or hit penetrating shots because their shots do not have that much power. This can happen on forehands commonly and also backhands. Then they start to try to hit the ball harder by doing wrong things like tightening up. Even some kids hit the ball with two much rotation and cannot control the ball so much easier and this may cause the ball to go in all sorts of directions on the tennis court.
Over the years, USPTA Master Professional Rick Macci has been training top athletes on how to hit the most effective forehand. Introduced by Rick for the first time in the video "On Court with USPTA: Improved Forehand Technique with Rick Macci", he explains that it's all about reducing the range of motion for a faster and more explosive forehand.
Read more: Rick Macci: 7 Key Points that Help You to Hit the Most Effective Forehand
We all know that young tennis players need to make efforts during training and practice to get their tennis skills improved. Mental focus means to put purpose on learning a specific skill during training or practice.
Read more: Understanding of Player’s Mental Effort and Using of Practice Variability
